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Ektron Demo
Web Pro April 2011
Trey McCallie, University Marketing
Ektron Demo
• Agenda– Frequently Asked Questions– Planned Architecture– Integration with non-Ektron sites– Page Builder Templates (NAU version)– Targeted/Variable Content
Frequently Asked Questions
• How many sites you plan to have converted at go-live?– Wave/phase approach (as many as are ready)
• General timelines?– April - New design unveiled– mid-May - Templates ready in CMS– mid-May - CMS Access for initial wave– June - First wave sites populated into CMS– June - CMS Author training (first wave sites)– QA/QC – June/July– Go live – mid-July
Frequently Asked Questions
• When will NAU web developers have a chance to work in the real Ektron environment?– July/August
• What sort of support, if any, will be offered to campus developers who wish to convert to the new CMS?– Developer-specific training will be offered– Possibly bring in Ektron trainer
• When will design specs be available for sites that do not plan to move to Ektron?– Summer
Architecture
Integration with non-Ektron sites
• Ektron web service delivers content based on ID– Web Services
• http://cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/WorkArea/webservices/ContentWS.asmx
• Any external site/scripting language can retrieve/consume content (without template)
HTML Retrieval
• Ektron Content– http://
cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/corporate.aspx?id=1060
• Web Service– http://
cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/WorkArea/webservices/ContentWS.asmx/GetContentBlock?ContentId=1060
Structured Content Retrieval
• Ektron Smart Form Data– http://cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/trai
ninghome/
• Web Service– http://
cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/WorkArea/webservices/ContentWS.asmx/GetContentBlock?ContentId=898
Structured Content Output
Page Builder Templates• Drag-n-drop functionality for site admins• Add/remove widgets
– RSS– http://feeds.feedburner.com/insidenau
• Default functionality lets authors create each new page as a one-off, breaking templating principles (that is a bad thing)
• We plan to use as a template manager, not a page builder for NAU sites• http://cmsdemo.nau.edu/EktronTech/EktronPro/
Targeted Content
• Display variable content based on a number of preset conditions– Search engine– Referring URL– Date/Time– URL Parameter
• Analytics friendly URL from a campaign– ?utm_source=newsletter
Ektron Demo
Web Pro April 2011
Trey McCallie, University Marketing